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2017 Dances With Films Festival Announces Lineup

The 2017 Dances With Films Festival is gearing up for its 20th edition starting on June 1st though the 11th in Los Angeles. This year’s lineup has been announced, which includes 74 world premieres and 36 west coast premieres. We’ve covered DWF for
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HOUNDS OF LOVE Review

From its ominous, yet beautifully shot opening - a super-slow-motion tracking shot of girls playing on a playground - it’s quickly evident that we’re in for an intense experience with Ben Young’s feature debut, Hounds of Love.

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2017 LA Film Festival Competition Titles Announced

The 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival is about to kick off June 14 – June 22 and today Film Independent announced the full competition lineup. Boasting 37 World Premieres, 2 International Premieres, and 9 North American Premieres, this year’s festival is shaping up nicely,

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Rooftop Films Announces 2017 Summer Lineup

Despite today’s torrential downpour, the weather is finally beginning to warm up and with that the 2017 Rooftop Films summer series is ready to kick off. Today, the full slate of films has been announced with a slew of great looking

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TIGER RAID Review

War is a nasty, dirty, ugly thing, and Simon Dixon’s directorial debut, Tiger Raid, conveys this hell on earth by telling the story of two despicable mercenaries on a mission to perpetrate a kidnapping in Iraq.

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THE BOOK OF HENRY To Open 2017 LA Film Festival

The 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival is set to kick off June 14th and today the opening film has been announced as Colin Trevorrow‘s The Book of Henry. The film stars Naomi Watts as the mother of a gifted son who discovers

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Tribeca 2017: DEVIL’S GATE Review

Feeling a lot like the recently released, and far more entertaining, The Void, Devil’s Gate simply rehashes a plotline we’ve seen many times before but doesn’t add anything of value to it.

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Tribeca 2017: Audience Awards Announced

The 2017 Tribeca Film Festival is wrapping up this weekend and this afternoon the audience award winners have been announced. Petra Volpe‘s The Divine Order won the audience award for narrative and Greg Campbell‘s Hondros won for documentary.

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Tribeca 2017: Jury Awards Announced

The 2017 Tribeca Film Festival is about to wrap up, and with that the jury awards for this years festival have been announced. Rachel Israel‘s Keep the Change was awarded Best Narrative Feature, Elvira Lind‘s Bobbi Jene won Best Documentary Feature, and Rachel Israel

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Tribeca 2017: I AM EVIDENCE Review

Succinct and poignant, I Am Evidence is an important telling of a shameful side of our legal system, and one hopes that activists will continue to help make the system itself more accountable.